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Feb. 24, 2012
Imagining A More Active Moon
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| The standard picture of the moon is of a long-dead object, geologically speaking. But using observations from cameras on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Thomas Watters and colleagues say in the journal Nature Geosciences that there are signs of more recent tectonic activity on the moon, within the last 50 million years. |
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Thomas R. Watters
Senior Scientist, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Washington DC
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